Judit Beke-Martos
J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. is the managing director of the Center for International Affairs and a senior lecturer at the Legal Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). She holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in law from the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), and an LL.M. from Suffolk University Law School (Boston, MA, USA), where she spent a year in residence as a Visiting Scholar. She spent three months as a Foreign Legal Researcher at the Legal History Institute of Gent University (Belgium). She published a book and several scholarly articles in English, German and Hungarian.
Jiří Brňovják
(1978), Doc. Mgr., Ph.D. University of Ostrava, is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, and a researcher at the Faculty’s Centre for Economic and Social History. His specialist area of research is the aristocracy and the estates society in the Habsburg Monarchy during the early modern period. His research also includes regional history and archival and auxiliary historical sciences. He has published a monograph called Šlechticem z moci úřední: Udělování šlechtických titulů v českých zemích 1705–1780 [Aristocrat from Official Power: Granting Aristocratic Titles in the Bohemian Lands 1705–1780] (Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, 2015).
Marjorie Carvalho de Souza
holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (2018). Since 2019, she pursues a Master’s degree in Global History from the same Institution and a graduated degree in Labour Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. During the 2015–2016 academic year, she experienced a research period at the University of Naples Federico ii, within which this work was conceived.
Michał Gałędek
Ph.D. (2010), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish administration, judiciary, constitutionalism, and political thought at the beginning of 19th century and in the interwar period.
Imre Képessy
(1986), Eötvös Loránd University, is assistant lecturer of Hungarian Legal History at that university as well as at the Széchenyi István University in Győr.
Ivan Kosnica
(1982), Ph.D., works at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb. He holds position of a Docent at the Chair of Croatian History of Law and State. His main research interest is history of citizenship and history of public law institutions in the second half of 19th and in the first half of 20th century. He is network chair of Politics, Citizenship and Nations Network at the European Social Science History Conference and editorial member of Journal on European History of Law.
Simon Lavis
Ph.D. (2015), Open University, is a Lecturer in law at that university. His research focuses on the nexus between law, history and theory in relation to the Third Reich, and the representation of Nazi law in academic discourse. His publications in this area include ‘The Distorted Jurisprudential Discourse of Nazi Law: Uncovering the ‘Rupture Thesis’ in the Anglo-American Legal Academy’ (2018) 31(4) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 745–770.
Tadeusz Maciejewski
Ph.D. (1980), is head of the Department of Legal History at the University of Gdańsk. His research focuses on the municipal law, public law and the history of administration. He is also interested in the free cities of Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1990, he was habilitated; in 1996, he was appointed professor of the University of Gdańsk; in 1999, he was made full professor. He has authored over 200 publications, including 20 monographs and textbooks. He has published a textbook entitled History of the Polish Legal System.
Maja Maciejewska-Szałas
Ph.D. (2012), is assistant professor at the Department of Civil Law (University of Gdańsk).
Thomas Mohr
is an associate professor at the School of Law, University College Dublin. He is vice president of the Irish Legal History Society and book review editor of the Irish Jurist, a law journal first published in 1848. His publications on Irish legal history range from medieval Gaelic law to the law of the independent Irish
Balázs Pálvölgyi
(1973), Ph.D. is associate professor at the University Széchenyi István in Győr (Hungary).
Marek Starý
(1974), Doc. JUDr., Ph.D. Charles University in Prague, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law, and at the Department of Administrative Law and Public Administration at the University of Finance and Administration. The main areas of his research and publication activities are the early modern land law of the Bohemian Kingdom and the history of Wallenstein’s Duchy of Frýdlant. He has written a number of studies and two monographs, e.g. Cizozemci a spoluobyvatelé. Udělování českého obyvatelského práva (inkolátu) v době předbělohorské [Foreigners and Co-inhabitants. Granting the Bohemian Inkolat in the Period before the Battle of White Mountain – 2018].